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selfless / unselfish / disinterested / altruistic
HSK 7-9
private / personal / interpersonal / sb with whom one has a close personal relationship / a member of one's clique
HSK 5
personal privacy; private matters
selfless / impartial
HSK 7-9
(of lovers) to meet in secret; to have a clandestine rendezvous
selfish / selfishness
HSK 7-9
everything for self and selfish profit (idiom); with no regard for others / selfish / mercenary
HSK 7-9
privately-run; private (school, hospital etc) / to set up illegally
HSK 7-9
personal matters
HSK 7-9
privately-owned / private
HSK 7-9
private car
HSK 7-9
public and private (interests, initiative etc)
private / privately-owned
HSK 7-9
in private
HSK 7-9
secrets / private business / privacy
HSK 6
private; personal / secretly; without explicit approval
HSK 7-9
privately / secretly / confidentially
to adequately take into account both public and private interests
to smuggle / to have an illicit affair
HSK 6
private enterprise / abbr. of 私營企業|私营企业
private ownership of property
joint public private operation
secret purse / secret stash of money
HSK 7-9
to stuff one's pockets / to take bribes
private placement (investing)
privatization / to privatize
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personal / private / selfish
personal trainer
private / secret / intimate
conflict of laws
to bend the law in order to favor one's relatives or associates (idiom)
for the common good and forgetting personal interests (idiom); to behave altruistically / selfless
private property
to enter (a place) without permission; to intrude into
to elope
to keep hidden / to keep in one's private possession / secret store / stash
to misappropriate (public funds etc) / to embezzle
private residence
selfishness / selfish motives
to take advantage of official post for personal revenge (idiom)
private life
illegitimate daughter
to practice favoritism
to make a pledge to be married, without parents' approval
private school
(idiom) to abuse one's position for personal gain
to use one's position for personal gain (idiom)
personal gain; (one's own) selfish interest
to travel on private business / to act without official approval / to inspect incognito / to act in one's own interest
a private whisper
to oppose smuggling / anti-contraband (measures, policy etc)
personal grudge
(gaming) server emulator; private server (abbr. for 私人服務器|私人服务器)
to use public office to avenge private wrongs
public and private interests working together (idiom)
to gain from corrupt dealing / to engage in graft / to feather one's nest
personal considerations / love affair
illegitimate child
virtual private network (VPN)
to stuff one's pockets / to enrich oneself dishonestly
private correspondence; personal letter / (computing) personal message (PM); to message sb
privately-run
personal friendship
private equity fund / fund offered to private placement (e.g. hedge fund)
illegitimate son
strictly impartial and incorruptible (idiom)
private (i.e. not work-related 因公)
fraudulent practice
(Tw) private message / to send a private message
private business / opposite: state-owned enterprise 國有企業|国有企业
(computing) to chat privately; private chat
to smuggle
(idiom) to whisper
smuggled goods
privacy right
official authority used for private interests (idiom); to attain private ends by abusing public position
private / privately owned or managed
to have secret ties with / to be in covert communication with (the enemy etc) / to engage in an illicit sexual relationship / adultery
(HK) privacy
the play of passions / carried away by passion (e.g. to commit a crime)
private parts / genitalia
(gaming) server emulator; private server
selfish desire
illegally-traded salt (with salt tax not paid)
smuggled product / contraband / pirate product
to settle privately / to solve behind closed doors / to settle out of court
to mingle with the people incognito
privately-owned house / private rooms / private ownings
personal / private / confidential
(literary) private residence; private house
intimate matters
to privateer
to suppress smugglers / to search for smuggled goods
private residence of a high-ranking official (as distinct from an official residence)
(Tw) to withhold (knowledge, resources etc) out of reluctance to share
family property / family wealth
private law
private school (in former times)

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